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i'm going to start planning another tourney in grand forks at rhombus guys. $30/team. byp. standard tornado tournament rules(there might be a few modifications which i would go over prior to gameplay). payouts for the top five teams. 1st 130. 2nd 100. 3rd 70. 4th 40. 5th and 6th $15 each. still using the tornado t3000, which i keep in good condition. if it looks like i'm getting a bunch of teams, i'll look into getting another table. i'm looking at a saturday afternoon starting around 2pm. late july/early august would be best. does anyone have any dates that are especially good or especially bad? i'll settle on a date by next friday. i appreciate input.
A-Ron
Rhombus Guys
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I'd prefer August, but talk to Kane and maybe he could bring up his table, if so whenever it works for him would be cool. If anyone doesn't know, the address is 312 Kittson Avenue, right downtown, table on the second floor.
Also once you know the date make an event for Rhombus' Facebook page, that's how Tomas, the French guy up here found out about the Turf's tournaments, but unfortunately he didn't know that we played until the day before he flew out.
Thanks for putting on another tourney.
ps- you Fargonaughts aint gonna win this time....
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August might be good. We are trying to pressure the Sports Bar into running a tournament possibly July 18th. The hard part about summer tournaments is that everyone has something going on during weekends. I figure if we set up this Sports tourney, we let everyone know and see who shows up. This one isn't official yet, we're still waiting for Sports to green light it.
A tourney would be good though. I bookmarked this thread so I'll check back to see if you guys get a date sorted out.
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Aye cool Joe, that'd be fun but I'll probably miss that tourney. You doing anything this Friday? I'm gonna be passing through and will be up for some games.
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I work until 8 on friday. After that, I should be able to play some games.
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august it is. stay tuned for a specific date.
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I would vote for July 24th or July 31st. My wife is due on 8/10 so anything close to that and I won't be able to make it.
Thanks for setting this up.
P.S. I definitely think we'll need 2 tables.
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Think the 24th would be better than the 31st. The end of august 21st, 28th are no good for me.
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If you can't locate a vendor there in GF then I could make arrangements to bring my table, Where would you put the tables? There second level would be pretty much reserved for foos if you put them both up there... I will be busy the last weekend in July (31st) Other then that I should be open.
Thanks for putting one on=)
Kane
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after taking various schedules into account, i decided to go with july 24th. i'll contact the local vendors about a table for the day. the table(s) will be in the front section, so that there will be more room to watch. if there are any questions, feel free to ask.
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That's cool, I had sorta forgotten about a wedding on the 7th. Also could we do a $5 or so dyp afterwards?
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July 24th works for me too...I'll finally make it up for one of the fabled GF tourneys.
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Assuming the BYP ends at a reasonable hour, I would be up for a DYP as well.
Also, in regards to the payouts for the BYP, the total amount you listed comes to $370. Is it fair to assume if we have more than 24 players, the payouts will go up accordingly (13 teams * $30 = $390 total)? I thinking paying out to 6th place is a great idea and will definitely help attract more people.
I'll find out who all from my work will be coming and post an update once we get closer to the tournament date. I may have some players that need partners so if anyone is looking for a partner please post on this thread.
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it's really tough to say how many teams we will get. it could be fewer than 12(in which case i will be covering the costs); it could be more than 12. i'm not sure what to expect, but even if there were twelve i would be paying $10 out of pocket. so, unless it looks like there will be many more teams than 12, payouts will remain as posted. also we'll have a trophy again. this time, however, you'll be able to take it home with you. we can do dyp tourneys after the initial tourney. we have the space, so we can play all day and night if we want.
if you know your team, please post names and contact numbers. this makes it much easier for me to organize brackets and get things started on time. also, paying your entry fee ahead of time makes it easier on me. i can take cc over the phone which is easy for me. feel free to e-mail me at rhombus_guys@hotmail.com if you would like more privacy.
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For the tournament in January, we played 1-game matches to 8 goals (win by 2). Are you thinking of sticking with that format for this event?
If we can get 2 tables, I would vote for playing the more standard format of best of 3-game matches to 5 goals (no win by 2).
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I prefer best of three either to 5 or 8 as well. Also was thinking of some fun free single elimination events between bigger ones, here's what I thought of so far:
Big BYP - $30/team
One ball in you win singles
DYP - 5$ or so per person
Goalie wars first to 3 points
Roto DYP - $5 or so per person
Post other ideas for events, I think it'd be a nice change of pace. We could probably get house prizes for the free events or if you have some foosaball knickknack that would make a good prize feel free to bring it to give away.
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I finally got a tornado, so we'll have at least 2 tables for the tourney. It's a brown marble T2000, similar to the second table for the turf tourneys. I ordered some replacement parts including new 2 man rods, the three man ones seemed decent.
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Nice, congrats man. I like the ideas for extra events too.
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hey, guys, just wondering if you know how many people will be coming to the tournament from fargo. make sure to spread the word as it will be a great time. also, if i don't know you, or have not heard from you, please let me know in advance if you are going to attend. all the details should be in earlier posts on this thread.
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I will be there. I don't know for sure who what the exact number of teams out of the Turf will be. I would estimate 3ish, but I could be way off. I've been letting the people who show up on thursdays know about it. Some people sound interested, but I wouldn't count on them showing up at this point.
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David and I will be playing together again.
As for other people at work, Cliff, Jordan, and Kurt have all said they are going. One other person has said maybe, but if he falls through then I'd need to find a partner for the odd man out. Let me know if anyone is looking for a partner.
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if anyone wants a place to crash, I have room just bring a mat or something to sleep on
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as of now, there are some quality players here that need a partner, so if anyone there is looking let me know a few days in advance. then, we can pair them up. einer, are you in canada? i wanna make sure your table is a go.
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ya it'll be a go, but we could really use a third table if you can get one or if anyone else wants to bring theirs. I'm in Canada eh, not sure if i'll make it to the thursday weekly but will be back by Friday for sure. Who won the last two thursdays?
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armen and seth won last night. i'm not going to try get three tables. two should suffice. the games will go quick enough. plus, we are starting at two. so, hopefully people start showing up sometime in the one o'clock hour.
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trophy is ordered. unlike previous tournaments the winners will be able to take it home. it stands about 1.5 feet tall and will be inscribed. so, it sounds like 5 or six microsoft guys are coming. are any other teams coming from fargo? like the turf crowd? or some of the other people from those turf tournaments? please feel free to spread the word. i can get a third table if necessary, but i'll need to hear from a few more people. thanks
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FYI - my wife delivered our baby last night, so I'll be staying in Fargo this weekend. It was quite the surprise to both of us since he was 3 weeks early, but he is doing great and is a healthy baby.
Good luck to everyone!! David and I will definitely be back for the next tournament to challenge the winners.
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congrats on your son Joel
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Congrats on the baby joel. Still waiting to meet ya one of these tourneys. I will never be able to come up during the summer, I am busy with work, and have too many other things going on. But if there are more tourneys during the winter, I am down. My old partner is back in Dickinson and we will be ready. Also if there is any interest we usually have a xmas tourney. This will be the 6th year in row. We always have at least 3 tables and 4 events, so keep that in mind. Good luck to everyone that is playing in GF this weekend.
peace
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congrats, joel. are the other microsoft guys going to be coming still?
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Thanks to everyone who came out, it was a fun time. Nine teams showed up, we were hoping for a few more. Congrats to the winners, here's the results:
1 Kane/Joe
2 Dan/Einer
3 Preston/Red
4 A-Ron/Todd
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Thanks everyone involved in setting up the tournament. We had a really good time up there during the tournament and after. We'll try to get something rolling in Fargo here, but it may have to be in September when people aren't out of town so much.
Thanks again!